Stanley Mason biography
Awards and distinctions
1950 – Member of the Royal Society of Canada
1967 - Kendall Award by the American Chemical Society
1969 - Anselme-Payen Award by the American Chemical Society
1969 – Bingham Medal by the Society of Rheology
1973 – Chemical Institute of Canada (CIC) Medal
1980 - Howard N. Potts Medal of the Franklin Institute
1984 - Distinguished Member of the International Society of Biorheology
1985 – Professor Emericus of McGill University
1986 - Prix Marie-Victorin by the Province of Quebec
Professor Mason was born in Montreal and he received his Ph.D. in physical chemistry in 1939 at McGill.
After working for several years for the Department of National Defense and the Atomic Energy Division of the National Research Council, he returned to Montreal where he joined the Pulp and Paper Institute of Canada, while at the same time he started to teach at the Department of Chemistry at McGill university. Until his retirement in 1978 he was Director of the Applied Chemistry Division of the Pulp and Paper Research Institute of Canada. In 1979 he was named Otto Maas Professor in Chemistry, and in 1985 Professor Emeritus.
During his time at McGill Prof. Mason supervised over 60 Ph.D. students in physical chemistry and published over 270 publications. The results of his work on microrheology and wetting found applications not only in the pulp and paper industry, but also in medicine, meteorology and environmental science.